Mission: Upper GI - C O M P L E T E D !

Feb 25, 2011

Today I had my upper GI and I must say the nurses at Thunder Bay Regional Hospital were very sweet and accommodating.

After a night of getting around 2 hours of sleep I arrived at the hospital. They showed me to my little curtained off area and I got dressed into the hospital skivies. The nurse soon arrived and put in my IV pic and took my blood pressure. 

Around an hour and a half later I was wheeled into the room where the procedure was done. Dr. Mapeso is a pretty nice guy, nothing I was expecting... the dude was TINY compared to me lol. Anyways the little bugger tricked me the first time an got that nasty spray down my throat, then proceeded to do it 3 more times.  That stuff tasted like the juice that forms at the bottom of a garbage bag.. lol I wanted to throw up right there. Then the Dr gave me my sedation for the procedure... he then puts a plastic piece in my mouth and gets me to bite down on it... I assumed it was were the tube would enter... of course when he did that he started asking me a bunch of misc questions..(why do Dr.'s do that LOL as I sounded like a fool speaking with that in my mouth and was drooling all over), he then asked me if I felt the sedation yet and I nodded no, then again....I nodded no... then one more time...then he says "ok we are all done!" LOL wow I wasn't expecting that...I felt nothing!

After the successful procedure I was wheeled off back to my room/area and relaxed on the drugs for around 45 mins, and then the nurse brought me cheese, crackers, cookies and ginger ale...  after I ate I got dressed with some help from my gf, and finally got my land legs and we left!  All in all it was an easy procedure and any worries I had were for not.



Hope this helps anyone about to get there upper GI done... no worries....and remember you get cheese at the end!  Heh!

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